Observing timed sales: rules read, pages opened and dates kept
Four kinds of source, each with a date, and a list of what could not be checked.
Observing the sale types described here
This site distinguishes dated platform rules, archived CNFans material, recorded maintenance-page observations and editorial checklists. The new order-guide cases link to individual Reddit posts; they are not a survey or verified account records. An explanation of what might happen is not a claim that CNFans always handles it that way.
We did not place orders to test timing, and we did not use any tool to watch flash slots. Where a statement would need that kind of test, the page says the archive or the rule is silent instead.
Rules read in the Taobao rules centre
These are the rules cited on this site, with the revision date the rules centre showed when we read them. The links open the rule pages; they are in Chinese.
| Rule (English rendering) | Original title | Last revised |
|---|---|---|
| Taobao timeout rules | 淘宝网超时说明 | 2 January 2026 |
| Taobao rules for the team-up marketing tool | 淘宝网营销工具“拼团”玩法使用规范 | 18 July 2017 |
| Taobao platform rules on prohibited listings | 淘宝平台违禁信息管理规则 | 19 June 2026 |
| Taobao marketing campaign rules | 淘宝网营销活动规范 | 15 August 2012 |
| Taobao rules for its 2024 flash-sale festival | 2024年淘宝百亿秒杀节招商规则 | 10 April 2024 |
| Taobao rules for a 2026 holiday sale | 2026年淘宝五一狂欢招商规则 | 17 April 2026 |
| Taobao shipping rules | 淘宝网发货管理规范 | 9 April 2026 |
| Taobao guide to the staged presale tool | 发货专题工具篇：分阶段预售工具 | 2 June 2022 |
What we could not observe
Several things this site would like to state could not be checked. CNFans purchasing hours and its handling of missed slots were never archived. Tmall publishes its own rules on a separate site that we did not cite here; Weidian, 1688 and Pinduoduo each run timed sales in their own way. Draw systems on brand apps sit outside the marketplaces altogether.
Where these gaps matter, the pages say so and give the question to ask instead of an answer we cannot support.
How long each fact keeps
Dates beside a source describe the material actually reviewed. Historical CNFans screens are not current terms, and a past platform-rule reading is not a promise that the rule remains unchanged. Recheck current availability and applicable conditions before a transaction; this site does not monitor them continuously.
When a live page disagrees with these notes, the live page is right. Tell the desk and the note will be corrected with a new date.
How the wall photographs were chosen
The photographs on the shelf cards are crops of catalog listing photos, picked on 19 October 2026 to show what each shelf holds. They are cropped off-centre so the garment fills the card, and the home page and the Spreadsheet page use different crops. They illustrate a shelf; they do not recommend the listing they came from, and their alt text describes what is in the picture rather than naming a product.